On the recordMarch 11, 1998
I learned as a child from reading the Bible that tax collectors have never been popular, and that, I suspect, will never change. But I do not think that that can explain the growing hostility of more and more taxpayers towards the IRS. Now, I know that our liberal friends will dismiss that out of hand, saying how easy it is to bash the IRS. But they demonstrate in doing this that once again they simply do not care how good decent American taxpayers are treated by the IRS. We were elected to care and to do something about this runaway agency. The fact is people are unhappy with the IRS for a very good reason. There is clearly an abuse of power. I am talking about honest, average Americans facing an audit, who make an honest mistake and then are treated as criminals by the IRS, while the courts turn their back on the fact that these people deserve due process. Mr. Speaker, we must, in the Congress, do something about this abuse.
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